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College Profile: University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus

The University of Colorado Denver, usually shorted to the UC Denver is a public university in the United States state of Colorado. It is one of three schools of the University of Colorado system. The university has two campuses, one in downtown Denver at the Auraria Campus and the "Anschutz Medical Campus" located in neighboring Aurora. The main medical campus is located at the Aurora Campus. The downtown campus features both undergraduate and graduate courses, with the student population currently comprising more than 40 percent graduate (or masters and doctoral) students. The university offers a wide variety of degrees and is host to the university's teaching hospital, the University of Colorado Hospital on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora. The single university is the result of the 2004 consolidation of the "University of Colorado at Denver" and "University of Colorado Health Sciences Center." There are currently more than 27,000 students at the school's two physical campuses in downtown Denver and in Aurora. The school also offers classes via CU Online. The school offers more than 100 degree programs in 12 schools and colleges. UC Denver awards more than 3,400 degrees every year, and grants more graduate degrees than any other institution in Colorado. UC Denver employs more than 12,200 Coloradans, making it one of the metro Denver area's top employers. The University of Colorado Denver and Health Sciences Center serves more than 500,000 patients a year through its hospital and clinical services.

The University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center is a new university composed of three University of Colorado campuses Downtown Denver, Ninth and Colorado, and Fitzsimons at Aurora. The University Of Colorado Board of Regents created the new university on July 1, 2004, with the consolidation of the University of Colorado at Denver and the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. The new universitys mission spans the scopes of its parts and its vision is to:
Become the premier urban research university with nationally ranked programs of teaching, clinical care and community service throughout Colorado.
Provide access to higher education for undergraduate, graduate, and professional students with increased multicultural diversity through recruitment and pipeline initiatives.
Offer new interdisciplinary programs of education and research in the life sciences, professional programs and liberal arts.
Become a more entrepreneurial university with two campuses in the Denver/Aurora metropolitan area and the state.
Develop regional business and community partnerships that stimulate new programs and an improved economy.

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University of Colorado Denver, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, , UCD